Overview

• Gibson’s touchdown followed a 74-yard Miami punt-return score and put the Patriots ahead 30-27 in the fourth quarter of a 33-27 road win.
• The punt-return and kickoff-return touchdowns came on consecutive plays, a sequence recorded only twice in NFL history.
• He logged six kickoff returns for an NFL-high 171 yards in the game and reached a top speed of 20.19 mph, according to Next Gen Stats.
• The return was the NFL’s first kickoff-return touchdown of the season and the seventh since the league’s revamped kickoff rules began last year.
• This season he is averaging 29.9 yards on eight kickoff returns after averaging 26.6 on nine last year, and the award ends the Patriots’ two-year gap without a weekly honoree.